Distraught and panicking, Jess McLaughlin logged into their Twitter account last October and wrote a desperate, late-night tweet. “I feel like I’m just not going to succeed in academia anymore — that ...

This article is the first in a series discussing the results of Nature’s 2025 PhD survey. The next will look at what doctoral candidates wish they’d known when they set out on their degrees. The ...

That’s how I once described my PhD supervision experience. I used to picture our relationship like an octopus: the two branchial hearts pump blood to the gills to absorb oxygen – just like my two ...

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If you are aiming for a career in academia, especially one involving research, then a PhD is mandatory. If you have a passion for bench work or aren’t ready to commit to a PhD, then going straight ...